History quiz – Landing on Mars
When did the first spacecraft land on Mars?
1957
1969
1971
1987
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English Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt died in Kensington, aged 83. His best-known work is his allegorical The Light of the World. The original painting hangs in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford.
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